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Career Development PDF
Final Report
by
Anastasija Gadovič
Career Development
Paris
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develop his or her career development plan. Completing it, you can make the right decision,
in terms of your future career. Career planning has always been important, but nowadays, it
has acquired particular importance, as today there are plenty of jobs you can choose from,
while not a long time ago there were only regular jobs options such as a doctor, engineer,
Before taking this course, I had a feeling that I approximately knew what I want to do
in my future and this course helped me to prove my decision in my career and motivated me
to do, even more, not just to have in mind who I what to become and what to achieve. But
how does particularly this course helped and what I realized more?
First of all, I realized that if you want to succeed in your future you should start setting
clear goals for yourself already now. The earlier you start thinking about your career, goals
you should achieve and skills, you should learn, the faster you will succeed and less
complicated it would be after graduation. It is not a secret that a lot of students do not know,
what they want to do in their life after graduation and they have a problem of finding a good
job. However, the point is that they have never been trying to understand themselves and
trying to find an internship or part-time jobs for the experience while studying. That is why
Secondly, I learned that the way for success is made of 3 main factors such as goals
setting, being passionate about what you are doing, and persistence in your life. It is not
enough just setting goals and not trying to achieve them. You should be persistent, try again
and again, even at first you fail. That was the case for famous writer J.K Rowling, who was
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rejected by 12 publishers, before finding her success. Her persistence and a strong belief in
herself led her to become successful in life, therefore she fulfilled herself in life.
understanding yourself better. There are plenty types of different self-assessments, but in our
Inventories" and "Schen's Theory of Career Anchors". In Holland's Theory of Careers, people
can be categorized as one of six personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,
Enterprising and Conventional. I have a three-letter code ECS, which means that I am more
Enterprising type of person, then Conventional and Social type resemble me next. Regarding
that, I am an enterprising person, the job, where I can influence, persuade the people as well
as managing and lead the organization would be the most suitable for me. Taking about the
"Work Values Inventories" test, 3 the most important priorities for me are what kind of tasks
I will be doing, salary and working hours. Moving on to the "Schen's Theory of Career
Anchors", by completing this test I found out that Lifestyle Integration and Pure Challenge is
important for me in my future work. This means that I need a balance between work and
other aspects of my life, as well as, solving difficult problems is crucial for my future work,
Talking about my own career, since I've already had experience in 3 part-time jobs, I
found my last experience in the international travel company Tez Tour extremely useful for
myself. Being part of the corporate environment, I was inspired by it a lot. Consequently, I
decided that I want to open my own successful travel agency. In order to achieve my
objective, I need to work for some time in a travel agency to gain specific knowledge about
how is it structured and how does it work at all. On top of that, the self-assessment results
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helped me to understand that the path I have chosen is right. What I need to do know, is to
In the modern world, the organization in which the person works is the most important
source of support for the employee in terms of their own career development. However,
depending on the country and organization itself, it might be that process of career
development in the organization is different, having their own particular features, which are
based on the vision of the company as well as specific cultural features. One of the best
examples would be the difference between Japanese career development and Lithuanian's,
without taking in mind person desires. It may happen that employee will be in a position that
is not their perfect option. For example, a Japanese employee doing finance in a Japanese
company is doing it because he was assigned to that job. In Japan employee has little control
over where he is enrolled in the company. However, it is important to mention that Japanese
companies gives lots of benefits to their employees. Safety and constancy are core values for
Japanese career development. After reaching a particular status level, the employee might be
suggested free housing near the office paid by the company. Also one of the main features
that distinguish Japanese from Lithuania is strong loyalty to the company, so the employee is
not switching from one work to another but stays loyal for the company for their entire life.
Probably, particularly these feature makes them being professional in their sphere of working
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values for the Lithuanian's employees is not safety and they are not aiming to stay in one
company for the entire life. The most important values are interpersonal relations and ability
to express yourself. For the employees it is essential to have pleasant working environment,
where they will not feel uncomfortable or unneeded. However, depending on the company
and how they manage career development with their employees, depends on how loyal are
employees.
Having the experience to work in the international travel company Tez Tour, I find out
that career development in this company is developed extremely strong, that is why
employees, who start working for this company stay loyal for a long time. First of all, when
you are just start working, you have 3 months of the learning period. Everyone is helping you
to infiltrate into the working environment and help you with any questions and doubts you
are facing. Secondly, every spring company has a set of development seminars for the
partners, who are the representatives of the company. Thirdly, during the whole year,
different types of seminars are organized for employees of the company. Such kind of
seminars like "How to deal with conflict situations", "Cold Calling", "How to increase sales
by phone", motivation seminars. Also, there is another type of seminars, regarding hotels.
Representatives from other countries come to share their experience and knowledge about a
particular chain of hotels. On top of that, the company has a very pleasant and warm working
celebration, such as New Year's Eve, Christmas, Valentine's day, Tourism day, National
Independence Day. Also, the company is trying to create a strong relationship between
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skiing, surfing, going to the concerts and theatre together and all is at expense of the
company.
To conclude, it is also worthy to mention, that there are specific benefits for the
employees, such as good discounts for trips. The company is encouraging its employees to
The main points I learned in this course about managing employees career development
Career development from the organization perspective is one of the main and essential
parts of the organization. As I was mentioning before, working conditions and working
environment play a huge role and do a significant impact on the employee. Employee expects
from the company, that it will give him the opportunity for professional growth,
improvement of living standards, a crucial degree of pleasure from work and definitely
express personal professional perspectives. In every company, it is known how important the
motivation and involvement of employees is, but in most organizations, managers fail to
achieve this. And when they fail to do so, the performance of the whole company suffers.
That is why the key question is how should you manage your employees to stay motivated
and loyal?
As far as I learned from this course: job placement, transfers, training, counseling,
performance appraisal, and promotion are the activities, which can impact on the overall well
being of the employee. All in all, I think there are 3 main points of career development in the
company. First of all, it should be crucial for the company to help individuals improve their
performance. That is why different types of training, seminars should be organized, in order
to give employees the opportunity to grow professionally. Secondly, the company should
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reduce uncertainty among employees. It means that, by setting clear options for the employee
how he can grow within the company. For example, starting at first as a right hand for the
manager, then becoming a manager, after that - supervisor. Lastly, focusing on employee
plans upon the organization where they are working in. By doing this company and the
employee will avoid mismatch, therefore both will stay happy and will save their time and
strengths.
employee satisfaction. When I will have my own company, I will try to make it as pleasant,
times in a month giving an opportunity working from home. If these will be successful,
flexibility in terms of work will be implemented gradually. The main goal would focus on
completing the tasks. Also, one of the benefits would be sports activities. At the beginning of
the year, using the survey, employees could choose an activity, such as tennis, boxing, yoga
or golf which they would like to do during the year together. This will make a strong and
warm relationship between employees. Talking about the trainings, concerning that nowadays
knowing languages is important in every business, language lessons will be a good idea.
English would be mandatory for every employee to have an opportunity of practicing it.
Others languages might be suggested, depending on the business and employees needs.
Another essential and final point, I would like to mention is that the vision and values of
the company should motivate and inspire employees as well. The working place should
become a 2nd home, where employees can feel support and appreciation. Only if the work
becomes the second home and the place where you are not struggling, but feeling full of
motivation to do your job, employees will stay loyal and the company will prosper.